The nature of the body : a cultural history of nudism in postwar Canada
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Abstract
Nudism emerged in early twentieth-century Germany as a corrective to the ill effects of industrialization. As recreational nudist clubs took root in Canada after the Second World War, their members engaged with contemporary concerns about mental health, juvenile delinquency, and sexual deviance. They promoted nudism as familyfriendly and as a means to realize the widely shared parenting objective of creating psychologically healthy, well-adjusted citizens.Nudism in postwar Canada was an embodied practice intended to re-make the mind. Canadian nudism both challenged and reinforced postwar social norms. Committed to dissociating nudity from sexuality, nudist clubs created space for men, women, and children to socialize in the nude. Nudists argued that the acts of going nude and looking at the nude bodies of others satisfied natural curiosity and loosened the hold of social taboos. Despite their transgression of taboos around nudity, nudists sought social respectability. In particular, they embraced the hetero-normativity of mainstream Canadian society, and argued that their practice strengthened rather than undermined marriage and family life.This dissertation explores local club operations, nudist representations of the body through photography and pageants, and tensions surrounding new forms of social nudism that emerged around 1970. It situates the body as a site of both social regulation and resistance, and explores the negotiations of a group of otherwise ordinary Canadians as they grappled with the nature of the body in modern life.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.052 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".